organize mp3's

BudBud Chesterfield, Va
edited January 2006 in Science & Tech
how does everyone organize their mp3's? I have roughly 12 dvd's of mp3's that im moving to my fileserver and they are pretty random i didnt burn all of them i was given about 8 of them. I have some that complete cd's are on there some are just a few songs by an artist. So im just trying to get it all organized cause its a lot of music. Oh also is there a software app that would sort and see if there's is any duplicates of songs so i dont have too?

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  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    you either love it or hate it, but iTunes for me, is the answer to my organizational woes. It organizes everything automatically. Very easy.

    Most people hate it, though.
  • tmh88tmh88 Pittsburgh / Athens, OH
    edited January 2006
    Im with prime on this one, itunes is awsome.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited January 2006
    well i like to use winamp for playing. what i mean when i have them on my fileserver is there a easy way to organize the folders? and put them in order automatically. Will itunes take all my mp3s and put them in folders by artist and check for duplicates?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    yes it will
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited January 2006
    just for curiosity sake is there anything else? im just not a fan of itunes. also what does itunes do with duplicates?
  • reelbigfishreelbigfish Boston, MA Member
    edited January 2006
    I am also a user of itunes, it just makes things easy. If there are duplicate files in different locations, it will not delete them. If you tell it to, it will remove it from your list of songs or delete it entirely.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited January 2006
    yea i just dont like itunes
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited January 2006
    also is ther a software app that will fill gaps in the id tags automatically? I didnt think itunes will do that
  • zero-counterzero-counter Linux Lubber San Antonio Member
    edited January 2006
    Bud wrote:
    also is ther a software app that will fill gaps in the id tags automatically? I didnt think itunes will do that
    Not sure of software that will fill in the id tags automatically, since someone would have to come up with a database with the digital fingerprint of every file to match up to. I know that some of the music corps have such a devil, for hunting filesharers.

    I use the Windows Media Player Library function along with managing my folder system on the HD. The WMP option is great, especially since it is included already. Check webattack.com for freeware options for organizing media.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited January 2006
    Okay. Here we go. An overly large collection has taught me a few lessons.

    I have mine grouped drive\music\artist\album(s)\song(s).

    I really only have full albums, so I'm not sure how to help you with single songs. I still suggest that way.

    For ALL (I mean it) of your renaming woes, use Tag & Rename. It will be able to rename/tag the files based on a mask you tell it to use. If there's nothing there, if it's a full album, it can look it up on FreeDB (like CDDB but non-commercialized, meaning they don't need a license to access it), or Amazon.

    After you've got what you want tagged, you can rename folders based on another, customizable mask. You can do this en masse, too. I usually go through, correct tags, rename folders. It takes me about half an hour to do for roughly 5,000 songs. It's really not a lot of work, so I tend to let it build up before I restructure things into my main folder.

    I don't know how iTunes works exactly, but I don't even let it see my files, no sir. I'm sorry, but iTunes on a PC is just not practical for a large library.

    I do it manually, and then in Winamp I just play out of the media library. For album-based playing, there's a very nice plugin out there called AlbumList. It works amazingly well, and generally picks up on missing/not tagged info. Definitely a must-have. Anymore info, feel free to pm me.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited January 2006
    i have roughly 30gb of music right now so i was looking for something that would fix them automatically
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    http://musicbrainz.org/
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited January 2006
    Black Hawk wrote:
    http://musicbrainz.org/

    lol i just installed that
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited January 2006
    Bud wrote:
    i have roughly 30gb of music right now so i was looking for something that would fix them automatically

    I have 177. It's not that hard.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited January 2006
    i just dont want to go through manually. these id tags for this music is jacked up. the music sounds good but the guy who gave it to me semi labeled them and some songs are not titled right. i used musicbrainz and out of 5000 songs it had 2000 unidentified so i am trying to get them straight
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited January 2006
    winamp can do it, so can itunes, but winamp didnt totally screw up my music like itunes did.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited January 2006
    I have about 250 files. I have them on my 2nd HD in a MUSIC folder, alphabetized, named, and all formatted the same ("Artist - Song").
  • tmh88tmh88 Pittsburgh / Athens, OH
    edited January 2006
    entropy wrote:
    I have 177. It's not that hard.

    wait a sec, 117 gigs of music? i didnt think that was possible.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited January 2006
    ah i got more im sitting at 60gb unsorted on top of my 60gb of music. mines straight but its taking me forever to get it straight. besides itunes is there a app that will sort for duplicates and ask you what to do with them? know i have to have tons of duplicates
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